Principal Solution Architect
Blink Ops
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • New York • 🇺🇸 United States
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Lead
About the role
- Join enterprise sales conversations to understand customer requirements in depth technically and strategically.
- Design BlinkOps-based architectures that align with customer needs, optimize delivery effort, and minimize future maintenance risks.
- Collaborate closely with Sales Engineers, AEs, and internal stakeholders to drive agreement around the best solution design.
- Lead architecture deep dives, solution validation sessions, and POCs when necessary.
- Serve as a technical advisor during SOW creation, including effort estimation and design clarity.
- Maintain expert-level knowledge of the BlinkOps platform and upcoming roadmap capabilities.
- Create reusable design assets (reference architectures, design patterns, best practices) to accelerate future engagements.
- Act as a thought partner to Product and Engineering by providing structured feedback on recurring needs or gaps seen in the field.
Requirements
- 5+ years as a software engineer experience, including production-grade systems in fast-paced environments.
- Customer-facing experience.
- Strong system design skills, including tradeoff analysis between scalability, complexity, and maintainability.
- Proven experience with automation, API integrations, and security technologies (e.g., SIEM, SOAR, CSPM, EDR).
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, able to lead high-stakes conversations with customers and internal teams.
- Experience supporting SOW development and effort estimation for enterprise projects.
- Comfortable influencing across functions: Sales, Engineering, CS, and Product.
Benefits
- Remote work options
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
software engineeringsystem designautomationAPI integrationssecurity technologiestradeoff analysiseffort estimationdesign patternsreference architecturesBlinkOps
Soft skills
interpersonal skillscommunication skillsleadershipcollaborationinfluencingthought partnershipcustomer-facing experienceproblem-solvingfeedback provisionstakeholder engagement